Roman Catholic Diocese of Gap
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Diocese of Gap and Embrun Dioecesis Vapincensis et Ebrodunensis Diocèse de Gap et d'Embrun |
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| Location | |
| Country |  France |
| Ecclesiastical province | Marseille |
| Metropolitan | Archdiocese of Marseille |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 5,643 km2 (2,179 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2013) 141,500 121,300 (85.7%) |
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| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 5th Century |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of Notre-Dame and Saint Arnoux in Gap |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Jean-Michel di Falco Léandri |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Georges Pontier |
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gap and Embrun (Latin: Dioecesis Vapincensis et Ebrodunensis; French: Diocèse de Gap et d'Embrun) is a suffragan diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan archdiocese of Marseille in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, southern France.
The episcopal see is Gap Cathedral, in the city of Gap. It also has, all in the department of Hautes-Alpes:
The current titular is Jean-Michel di Falco.
As per 2014, it pastorally served 121,700 Catholics (85.8% of 141,900 total) on 5,643 km² in 188 parishes and a mission with 55 priests (51 diocesan, 4 religious), 8 deacons, 71 lay religious (5 brothers, 66 sisters) and 3 seminarians .
Ancient traditions in liturgical books, of which at least one dates from the fourteenth century, state that the first Bishop of Gap was St. Demetrius, disciple of the Apostles and martyrs. Victor de Buck in the Acta Sanctorum (October, XI) finds nothing inadmissible in these traditions, while Canon Albanès defends them against M. Roman. Albanès names as bishops of Gap the martyr St. Tigris (fourth century), then St. Remedius (394-419), whom Louis Duchesne makes a Bishop of Antibes and who was involved in the struggle between Pope Zosimus and Bishop Proculus of Marseilles, finally St. Constantinus, about 439. According to Duchesne the first historically known bishop is Constantinus, present at the Council of Epaone in 517. The church of Gap had, among other bishops, St. Aregius (or St. Arey, 579-610?), who established at Gap a celebrated literary school and was held in great esteem by St. Gregory the Great; also St. Arnoude = Arnoux (1065–1078), a monk of Trinité de Vendome, named bishop by Pope Alexander II to replace the simoniac Ripert, and who became the patron saint of the episcopal city.
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